Nick Halstead

Nicholas John Halstead (born 9 April 1972 in Kent) is a British racing driver, software engineer and entrepreneur who is set to compete in the British Touring Car Championship for Steel Seal with Power Maxed Racing. Halstead has previously competed in British GT and the Ginetta GT4 Supercup. He won the AM title in the 2018 Ginetta GT5 Challenge, and made his British Touring Car Championship debut at Croft in 2021, substituting for Rick Parfitt Jr. at Excelr8 with TradePriceCars.com.

Halstead is the founder of companies such as Infosum, Datasift and TweetMeme, the latter of which was the first site containing the retweet feature, before it was sold to Twitter in 2010.

Career

Fav.or.it In October 2007, the Fav.or.it company was founded, a proposed blog commenting system founded on principle that consumers and businesses both need content curated. The site was launched in 2008, and quickly built to 500,000 monthly users. The full site was then launched to the public in July the same year.

In February 2009, the retweet button was released onto the website, a feature allowing users to share posts they liked. Although this feature was founded on the TweetMeme website, it soon became a standard feature of almost all forum and social media sites, with approximately 1.6 billion retweet buttons across different pages on the internet.

On 12 August 2010, the retweet feature was sold to Twitter, and the website was shut down in September 2012, when it still had 3 million users at the time.

DataSift Halstead announced DataSift in September 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, a social data platform that provides brands and enterprises with access to content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and dozens of other social networks. The software was officially released in November 2011.

Halstead stepped down as CEO of the company in October 2015.

InfoSum In late 2015, Halstead founded Cognitive Logic, a data collaboration company. It was rebranded to InfoSum in September 2017.

Ginetta GT4 Supercup Competing in a handful of races in series such as TCR UK and the Renault Clio Cup UK alongside his Ginetta GT5 campaign across 2019, in 2020, Halstead would step up to the Ginetta GT4 Supercup, competing in the Pro-AM class still with Fox Motorsport. The duo achieved two wins in class over the course of seven races to finish second in the GT4 Pro-AM cup and tied 8th overall in the GT4 category.

Halstead continued with Fox Motorsport in the series in 2022, this time switching to the GT3 category.

British Touring Car Championship

Halstead made his British Touring Car Championship debut at Croft in 2021, substituting for Rick Parfitt Jr. at Excelr8 with TradePriceCars.com. 19 0 ? ? 10 ?

2018

15 4 ? ? ? ?

13 0 0 0 0 0 ?

6 0 1 0 1 82 4th

6 0 1 0 1 184 5th

2 0 1 1 1 87 9th

2 0 0 0 0 10 17th 2020

18 3 3 4 15 477

8 0 0 0 1 66.5 9th

5 0 0 0 1 151 6th

3 0 0 0 0 0 34th

9 1 0 0 2 81 7th

17 0 0 0 1 276 5th

30 0 0 0 0 -5 30th

4 0 0 0 0 11 13th 2023-24

1 0 0 0 0 0 NC† 2024

28 0 0 0 0 7 22nd

23 0 0 0 0 4 27th

2025-26

2026

6 0 0 0 0 0 26th*

† As Halstead didn't complete more than one round, he was not eligible for points. Season still in progress.

Complete British GT Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete British Touring Car Championship results (key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded – 2002–2003 all races, 2004–present just in first race) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded all races) signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap (1 point awarded – 2002 just in feature races, 2003–present all races) Season still in progress.

Complete Asian Le Mans Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)